Instead, people used thick and hard shells from large Baler sea snails to make knives for butchering turtles and dugong. In contrast to the cave deposits, the open-air archaeological sites present ...

The dugong, an endangered marine animal species designated as a natural monument by the government of Japan, almost certainly inhabit broad areas of the Ryukyu Island chain in Okinawa Prefecture ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The U.S. Department of Defense must reassess the impacts of a controversial new military base on Okinawa in order to protect the endangered Okinawa dugong, a manatee-like marine ...

A dugong, caught along with fish, was released by kind-hearted fishermen who cut their nets to do so. A video of the good ...